Jason Stollsteimer and Don Blum, the singer-guitarist and drummer for Von Bondies, the Detroit-based garage-rock band, muse on what inspires them.

Touring: I don’t know if this is good or bad, but when you’re touring with another band, you tend to bond with them so quickly and strongly that, when the tour ends, you’re struck by that horrible leaving-summer-camp sadness that you haven’t had since you were a kid. Only now I can get that sad feeling even after only playing two shows with another band and never exchanging a single word with them. What’s wrong with me?

Celebrity: Paris Hilton is harmless, and she’s only hurting herself. I just hope that 12-to-15-year-olds realize that it’s not healthy to act or be like Paris Hilton. People like to watch surreal things, but nobody can relate to being a Hilton. That’s the reason why people love it, I guess.

Music videos: Everyone needs to take a lesson from Biz Markie and Eminem – stop taking yourselves so seriously! I just watched four videos on BET, and they were identical. I remember back in the day watching rap videos, and everyone was having so much fun!

These days, all I see are videos degrading women, money being flashed, “Hey check out my Maybach I just rented today!” And bling, of course. You’re not special, because everyone’s doing it. Why not keep people dancing and having fun? The music is great, but why don’t they make good videos? Although I must say that R. Kelly’s five-part series was genius! I hope that when he made that video, he wasn’t being serious. I thought it was funny, entertaining, drama.

Books: When I read Lorrie Moore’s “Self Help,” a great book of short stories, I felt like I had stumbled on the key to understanding the girl I was dating at the time – which was bad, because it was a horrible relationship to begin with and the book basically killed any hopes I had left in it. Now I use the book as a relationship test: If she identifies with it, I immediately break up with her.

Pet adoption: Go and adopt a pet! Puppies and kitties never go out of style. Head down to your local animal shelter and pick one up today. I have three dogs and two cats.

Movies: Rob Schneider films are the greatest. I don’t know who his audience is. Teenage girls? Older, desperate bachelors? Apparently, I am his only audience, because no one else I know seems to appreciate him as much as I do. It’s good to see a comedian who doesn’t use mean-spirited humor make movies that have positive messages. Wait, what am I saying? I sound like your mother.

Television: It’s nice to be able to turn on the TV at any time of the day or night and immediately see a character in a reality television show who tops any person you know in real life in selfishness, brattiness, pettiness and shallowness. It makes me feel like I’m actually a pretty good person. Vive la America!

Music: I recently started songwriting, and I write everything – bass lines, guitar riffs, melodies – on a cheap bass. I don’t actually know how to play the bass. But that doesn’t stop me. And it doesn’t matter. The (stuff) I come up with is at least as good as (what) I hear on the radio. Wait, don’t print that.

The Von Bondies play the Larimer Lounge on Wednesday with The Moaners and Machine Gun Blues. Tickets, $10, are available via BigMarksTickets.com.